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Achievements

Awards, patents, certifications, and speaking engagements across my career.

Patents

Korea Registered Patent No. 10-2867168

Korean Intellectual Property Office
  • AI-powered contract review server and its operation method • Co-inventor: contract analysis, summarization, checklist answering, model training • 38 contract types, multilingual (KO/EN/JP), playbook-based risk grading • 2.5 years in production, 4 enterprise PoC deployments

Competitions

NAVER CLOVA AI RUSH 2022 — 1st Place, Long Document Summarization Track

NAVER CLOVA
  • Won 1st place in the Long Document Summarization track at the NAVER CLOVA AI RUSH challenge (metric: average of ROUGE-1/2/L F-scores), summarizing long-form book, dialogue, document, and journal inputs
  • This became the launchpad for an NLP career, leading directly to an internship at NAVER Cloud (cloud division of Korea's largest internet company) and a full-time role in legal AI

Speaking & Presentations

3

LangCon 2024 — How to Tune Open Models for Long Context

LangCon
  • Presented on long-context LLM serving for legal documents (54K–80K tokens) and multi-adapter operations with LoRAX

Build with AI for Everyone — Building Deterministic LLM Systems with Structured Output

Build with AI for Everyone
  • Presented on structured output, guided decoding, Gemini/OpenAI schema control, and vLLM production experience

Google ML Bootcamp Alumni Meetup — From Ordinary Student to NLP Engineer

Google ML Bootcamp Alumni
  • Presented the career arc from Google ML Bootcamp completion to CLOVA AI RUSH 1st place to a NAVER Cloud Document Intelligence internship at the alumni meetup
  • Shared the story of growing from an ordinary undergraduate into an NLP engineer
  • Featured in the Google Korea Developers Blog event recap

Open Source

4 PRs

Merged PRs

4 PRs

Contribution Period

2024.03 — 2024.10

Theme

OpenAI-compatible serving interface improvements

#358

Chat Completion Stream Fix & API Improvements

Fixed the last delta serialization in chat completion stream to match OpenAI client standards, added a /tokenize endpoint, and improved Swagger documentation.

RustStreamingOpenAI APIBug Fix
Details → View on GitHub ↗
#374

Seed Parameter Support

Added seed parameter to OpenAI-compatible endpoints to enable deterministic generation.

RustDeterministicEvaluationFeature
Details → View on GitHub ↗
#506

Streaming Usage Information

Added token usage information (prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, total_tokens) to streaming chat completion responses.

RustStreamingToken AccountingFeature
Details → View on GitHub ↗
#644

Structured Output Support

Added support for text, json_object, and json_schema via the response_format parameter, strengthening compatibility with OpenAI's structured output interface.

RustStructured OutputJSON SchemaFeature
Details → View on GitHub ↗

Awards & Honors

4

InfoSec Class 5 Excellence Award (Torch Award)

Republic of Korea Army
  • Commendation for top academic performance in the ROK Army Information Security specialist training program (Class 5)
  • South Korea requires mandatory military service for male citizens; this course covered security operations, infrastructure defense, and network security
  • Recognized for excellence across all modules

ROK Army Core Values Contest — Grand Prize (Poster)

Republic of Korea Army
  • Grand prize in the ROK Army Core Values poster contest
  • During mandatory military service as an information security specialist, this award demonstrated communication and visual design skills beyond the core security operations role

Cyber Operations Command Commendation

Cyber Operations Command
  • Commendation from the Cyber Operations Command for national defense mission execution and reserve combat readiness contribution during mobilization training
  • South Korea requires mandatory military service for male citizens; this recognition came during reserve duty, building on prior active-duty service as an information security specialist

Hanyang University Summa Cum Laude (Early Graduation)

Hanyang University
  • B.Eng
  • in Computer Software from Hanyang University, graduated Summa Cum Laude with a GPA of 4.14/4.50 (96.4/100 — near-perfect on the percentage scale used in Korean universities)
  • Completed the degree one semester early and received a full-tuition scholarship for 4 semesters
  • Graduation project: memory-efficient LLM fine-tuning combining LLM.int8() quantization with LoRA to train a 13B model on a single consumer GPU

Certifications

2

TensorFlow Developer Certificate

Google / TensorFlow
  • Google-certified TensorFlow Developer credential, validating hands-on proficiency in computer vision, NLP, and time-series ML applications
  • (Expired: 2025-09-13)

Google ML Bootcamp Completion

Google Developers
  • Completed the Google Developers ML Bootcamp, covering the DeepLearning.AI Deep Learning Specialization curriculum
  • The foundations built here led to winning CLOVA AI RUSH 1st place, a NAVER Cloud internship, and a career transition into NLP engineering